July Updates and August Announcements

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   Announcements for June:

• August will see summer hitting quite temperately in the low 70s F / low to mid 20s C. Though there will be a few days with sprinkles, there will be no heavy rain and most days will see sunny and clear skies, with a few clouds here and there.
• The mess with the sun and moon has mixed up some of Avalon's natural processes, resulting in the following:
  • Though the mushroom harvests outside of Celliwig are normally done during September, they are ready to harvest now from the extra dark hours. Happy Early National Mushroom month! Celebrate by harvesting mushrooms from the underground caverns around the Ruins of Celliwig and the Edge of the Dusklight Woods. You can take it in to grocery or apothecary in town to sell for some extra money... just make sure you don't take it to the wrong one. Edible go to grocery, poisonous go to apothecary.
  • Magical circumstances have changed, which means beach and spring totems as they were no longer work for some reason. To that end, anyone who's been here more than a month will be sent a special ring called a Welcome Ring that allows them to go to the White Cliffs and the Red Springs from Camelot at any time and back to Camelot. It only works personally and cannot travel anyone else who isn't wearing the ring. New arrivals will receive theirs two weeks after arriving (bureaucracy takes time to get the paperwork straight for where to send it! But mostly they just receive it after apps close.)
    • Did your character purchase a Spring or Beach Totem from the Elphame Traders? They will receive a special token to trade in with them to get a new Totem of their choosing for each. Please note that the ring only works to go to and from these locations, the Camelot Totem will still function to get back to Camelot from any other location. Please reply to this post with a link to your previous purchase and the name of the new totem you would like to trade it in for here.

NEW Housekeeping Updates:

• Test Drive Meme Changes
  
  • Expect a slightly different arrival prompt set this month on the TDM! We are trying to make the arrival prompts easier and more accessible for current players to tag newbies and freshen things up a bit.
• Game History
  • Fii is amazing and updated the game history page, so now you can view the summaries for every event and keep track of the timeline much more easily!! Thank you Fii!
• Changing Monthly Updates to Monthly Summary. This will allow us to advertise posted player events that are open to players for backtagging that occurred this month, as well as updates that happen throughout the month. To have your player-run event included in this, add the entry tag "!player event" to the post to make sure the mods see it! As always, you can also ask a mod to plurk it on the mod account for you for additional advertisement. All player events to be advertised must be OTA, not closed to specific people.

Monthly Ongoings Summary:

• Player event: Lake Party - hosted by Rosa
• Player event: Concert - hosted by Ren
• As a reminder, the schedule has changed (announced mid-June) and was implemented this month (July). For more details, click here. Please give any feedback about the new schedule to the mod contact page here.

Undated but Upcoming Updates:

• Locations page update - the map is going to be updated as soon as Tay gets a new USB. Previous laptop lost the ability to connect to the internet so I have to get a drive to transfer the PSD in order to do the update
• Bestiary update - Shiranna is on the job, it's in-progress.
• Totem changes will be reflected in rewards

Activity Reminder

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 Hello everyone!

A friendly neighborhood reminder that you have appr. 19 hours to turn in activity for your activity check. Click the spreadsheet here for directions and to post your activity. 

• If your character's name has a green background, it means the mods have already verified your link.
• Reminder that we do not have a strike system given the low AC requirements.
• If your character is not listed, that means you do not owe AC. (This pertains to new characters that came in this month, as new arrivals do not have to turn in AC.)
• If your character has a crown emoji, that means they earned a free pass in December 2020 or bought one in Rewards. To use a pass instead of turning in AC, type "Pass" in the URL column.
• See a friend who you know has been active? Make sure you remind them to turn in their AC! It's due by 11:59PM PST today, 7/31!

Have a wonderful rest of your week!